Zeljko Obradovic

Europe’s coaching king holds a wide-ranging talk with Joe Arlauckas If you ever wanted to know what makes the greatest mastermind in European basketball tick, join Joe Arlauckas for an hour’s worth of remembrances with his friend and former coach, Zeljko Obradovic of Fenerbahce Beko Istanbul, on The Crossover. Their free-wheeling conversation starts in Obradovic’s home town of Cacak, Serbia, where his greatest influence was his father. “I always said…

After he led Fenerbahce Dogus Istanbul to become the first-ever Turkish club champion of Europe thanks to a pair of resounding victories at the Final Four, his fellow Turkish Airlines EuroLeague head coaches have voted Zeljko Obradovic as the 2016-17 EuroLeague Alexander Gomelsky Coach of the Year. Already a legend in continental basketball, Obradovic becomes the first person to be awarded the Gomelsky Trophy three times. He had previously received…